I finally asked the question I’ve wanted to ask for years

Join me in overanalyzing one voter interaction I had in New Hampshire

OK this photo doesn’t really apply to the post, but I typed in “a news reporter high-fiving a trump voter in the snow” and this is what AI gave me, and what came out is one of those uncanny-valley images I can’t not show the rest of the world.

This thing happened on my latest campaign swing – a few days I spent in Iowa leading up to the caucuses, immediately followed by a few days in New Hampshire.

I was getting out of my rental car a few hours ahead of a Trump rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when a woman driving by rolled down her window.

“Must be cold for you up here!” she said. She was maybe around 60, petite, glasses, thick New Hampshah accent.

I looked at her, baffled. She nodded toward my rental’s license plate. “You came all the way from South Carolina!”

I explained that I was in fact a reporter and that this car was a rental. She looked a little crestfallen.